Lid and card holder.



Patented Dec. l9, l899.. R. H. SUETTINGEB.

LID AND CARD HOLDER.

(Application filed Aug. 11, 1897. Renewed Kay 22, 1899.) (No Model.)

ME Nomus PETERS co. PHOYD-LITNQ. WASHINGTON, a. c.

- NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LID AND CARD HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 639,312, dated December 19, 1899. Application filed August 11, 1897. Renewed May 22, 1899'. Serial No. 717,802. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ROBERT H. SUETTINGER, residing at Two Rivers, in the county of Manitowoc and State of WVisconsin, have invented a new and useful Combined Lid and Card Holder, of which the following is a specification.

My invention is in the nature of a novel device for holding a hinged lid of a box in its open position and at the same time displaying a card upon which may be printed the price or any other information concerning the contents of the box.

My invention is especiallyadapted t0 cigarboxes, and has for its object to furnish a device of the class described which will permit of the display and inspection of several rows of boxes of cigars placed closely adjacent to each other in the showcase and at the same time to display on each the price of the cigars, their brand or quality, or any other information desired.

With these objects in view my invention consists in the improved construction, arrangement, and combination of parts hereinafter described and afterward particularly pointed out in the appended claim.

In order that persons skilled in the artto which my invention most nearly appertains and the public in general may beenabled to make and use my invention, I will now proceed to describe its construction and opera tion in connection with the accompanying drawings, in which-- Figure 1 is a perspective View of a cigarbox having the lid standing open and my invention applied thereto in practical operation. Fig. 2 is a perspective view showing my improved lid and card holder detached. Fig. 3 is a detail view showing the same in edge elevation. Fig. 4 is a detail view showing the sheet-metal blank out of which the main portion of my device is formed. Fig. 5is a detail view showing blank out of which the lidclamp is formed.

Like letters of reference mark the same parts wherever they occur in the various figures of the drawings.

Referring to the drawings by letters, A is one end of a cigar-box, and B is the lid, hinged thereto in any suitable or preferred manner.

0 is a blank of any desired sheet metal,

preferably, on account of its cheapness and flexibility, brass, nickle-plated, although I may use aluminium, silver, or other metal. D is a blank of similar metal, as shown in Fig. 5, out of which is formed the clamp E to clasp the edge of thelid of the box when the holder is in use. This I do by bending the blank upon itself so that its two ends will lie sufliciently far apart to be squeezed upon the edge of the box-lid. I then fasten this clamp E to the blank 0 by means of rivets F, passing through holes G in the blanks G and D.

The main body of the blank C is preferably formed with scalloped edges H, which are turned over, as shown in Fig. 2, thus forming a receptacle in which a display-card may be passed. The opposite end of the blank is enlarged at I to a shape corresponding to that of the blank D, such enlargement being connected with the main body of the blank by a narrow neck J. This end I of the blank H is formed into a clamp to embrace the upper edge of the box, being bent over upon itself in a manner similar to blank D, as before described.

In order that the clamps may not be liable to slip on the end or lid of the box, they are provided with inward projections K, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3. To bring the clamps in the position for use, the connection between them and the body of the blank are bent, as shown most plainly in Figs. 2 and 3, so that the lid clamp will project laterally wit-h reference to the end clamp, leaving its ends projecting at right angles thereto.

An obvious modification of the construction hereinbefore described would be to have the blank D formed integrally with the main blank 0, so that the whole device would then be made out of a single blank or piece of metal.

By the foregoing description it will be seen that I have provided a neat, simple, cheap, and eifective device for the purpose described, and while I- have illustrated what I now consider to be the best means for carrying out my invention I do not wish to be understood as confining myself to this exact construction, holding, as I do, that any such slight changes or variations as would suggest themselves to the ordinary mechanic will properly fall Within the scope and limit of my invention.

Having thus fully described myinvention,

what I claim as new, and desire to secure by with the scalloped portion turned inwardly Letters Patent of the United States, isto form flanges to hold a card or label, subto A holder for hinged box-lids, consisting of stantially as set forth. a body portion formed with jaws at one end 1 5 thereof to engage the edge of the box and at ROBERT SUET'I INGER' its opposite end with jaws extending laterally Vitnesses: thereof to engage the edge of the raised lid, ELMER E. CARR, and having-its longitudinal-edges scalloped, GEO. H. WEHAUSEN'. 

